Effective Protection For Domestic Workers

Author : Martin Oelz
Publisher : International Labor Office
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9221252752

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Effective Protection for Domestic Workers by Martin Oelz Pdf

This guide is a practical tool for those involved in national legislative processes and in the design of labour laws, including government officials and representatives of workers' and employers' organisations. At the 100th International Labour Conference in June 2011, the ILO adopted Convention No. 189 and Recommendation No. 201 on decent work for domestic workers. Because domestic workers are often excluded from the protection of labour laws or are treated less favourably than other wage workers, implementing the basic principles embodied in Convention No. 189 calls for an assessment and strengthening of national labour laws. With the Convention No. 189 as its underlying framework, this volume provides specific guidelines and complements these with examples drawn from a wide range of existing national labour laws concerning domestic workers. The guide's first part discusses alternative approaches to regulating domestic work, the nature and characteristics of domestic work, the forms of employment relationships that may exist, and their implications for regulation. Subsequent chapters focus on substantive areas of regulation, namely formalizing the employment relationship, working time, remuneration, fundamental principles and rights at work, protection from abuse and harassment, and protection of migrant domestic workers and child domestic workers.

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Foreign workers
ISBN : 9221231038

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Decent Work for Domestic Workers by International Labour Office Pdf

Proposed text for discussion at the 100th session of the Conference slated for June 2011. This is to carry out the decision, made during the 99th session in June 2010, to revisit the topic for a second discussion.

Author : Adelle Blackett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Household employees
ISBN : 9221110249

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Making Domestic Work Visible by Adelle Blackett Pdf

Author : Helen Schwenken,Lisa-Marie Heimeshoff
Publisher : kassel university press GmbH
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Household employees
ISBN : 9783862190515

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Domestic Workers Count: Global Data on an Often Invisible Sector by Helen Schwenken,Lisa-Marie Heimeshoff Pdf

Author : Malte Luebker,International Labour Organization,Martin Oelz,Yamila Simonovsky,International Labour Office. Conditions of Work and Employment Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9221252736

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Domestic Workers Across the World by Malte Luebker,International Labour Organization,Martin Oelz,Yamila Simonovsky,International Labour Office. Conditions of Work and Employment Branch Pdf

This publication sheds light on the magnitude of domestic work, a sector often "invisible" behind the doors of private households and unprotected by national legislation.The adoption of new international labour standards on domestic work (Convention No. 189 and its accompanying Recommendation No. 201) by the ILO at its 100th International Labour Conference in June 2011 represents a key milestone on the path to the realisation of decent work for domestic workers. This volume presents national statistics and new global and regional estimates on the number of domestic workers. It shows that domestic workers represent a significant share of the labour force worldwide and that domestic work is an important source of wage employment for women, especially in Latin America and Asia. It also examines the extent of inclusion or exclusion of domestic workers from key working conditions laws. In particular, it analyses how many domestic workers are covered by working time provisions, minimum wage legislation and maternity protection. The results demonstrate that under current national laws, substantial gaps in protection still remain. The volume concludes with a summary of the main findings and a reflection on the relevance of the newly adopted international standards to extend legal protection to domestic workers.

Author : Andrea Gattini,Rosana Garciandia,Philippa Webb
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004435650

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Human Dignity and International Law by Andrea Gattini,Rosana Garciandia,Philippa Webb Pdf

This book reflects on how the concept of human dignity, a central and classical concept in public international law, is used to protect the rights of particularly vulnerable sectors of contemporary society.

Author : Jennifer N. Fish
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479881437

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Domestic Workers of the World Unite! by Jennifer N. Fish Pdf

From grassroots to global activism, the untold story of the world's first domestic workers' movement. Domestic workers exist on the margins of the world labor market. Maids, nannies, housekeepers, au pairs, and other care workers are most often ‘off the books,’ working for long hours and low pay. They are not afforded legal protections or benefits such as union membership, health care, vacation days, and retirement plans. Many women who perform these jobs are migrants, and are oftentimes dependent upon their employers for room and board as well as their immigration status, creating an extremely vulnerable category of workers in the growing informal global economy. Drawing on over a decade’s worth of research, plus interviews with a number of key movement leaders and domestic workers, Jennifer N. Fish presents the compelling stories of the pioneering women who, while struggling to fight for rights in their own countries, mobilized transnationally to enact change. The book takes us to Geneva, where domestic workers organized, negotiated, and successfully received the first-ever granting of international standards for care work protections by the United Nations’ International Labour Organization. This landmark victory not only legitimizes the importance of these household laborers’ demands for respect and recognition, but also signals the need to consider human rights as a central component of workers’ rights. Domestic Workers of the World Unite! chronicles how a group with so few resources could organize and act within the world’s most powerful international structures and give voice to the wider global plight of migrants, women, and informal workers. For anyone with a stake in international human and workers’ rights, this is a critical and inspiring model of civil society organizing.

Author : Merike Blofield
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271068688

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Care Work and Class by Merike Blofield Pdf

Despite constitutions that enshrine equality, until recently every state in Latin America permitted longer working hours (in some cases more than double the hours) and lower benefits for domestic workers than other workers. This has, in effect, subsidized a cheap labor force for middle- and upper-class families and enabled well-to-do women to enter professional labor markets without having to negotiate household and care work with their male partners. While elite resistance to reform has been widespread, during the past fifteen years a handful of countries have instituted equal rights. In Care Work and Class, Merike Blofield examines how domestic workers’ mobilization, strategic alliances, and political windows of opportunity, mostly linked to left-wing executive and legislative allies, can lead to improved rights even in a region as unequal as Latin America. Blofield also examines the conditions that lead to better enforcement of rights.

Author : Bridget Anderson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1856497615

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Doing the Dirty Work? by Bridget Anderson Pdf

There has been a tendency amongst feminists to see domestic work as the great leveller, a common burden imposed on all women equally by patriarchy. This unique study of migrant domestic workers in the North uncovers some uncomfortable facts about the race and class aspects of domestic oppression. Based on original research, it looks at the racialisation of paid domestic labour in the North - a phenomenon which challenges feminsim and political theory at a fundamental level. The book opens with an exploration of the public/private divide and an overview of the debates on women and power. The author goes on to provide a map of employment patterns of migrant women in domestic work in the North; she describes the work they perform, their living and working conditions and their employment relations. A chapter on the US explores the connections between slavery and contemporary domestic service while a section on commodification examines the extent to which migrant domestic workers are not selling their labour but their whole personhood. The book also looks at the role of the Other in managing dirt, death and pollution and the effects of the feminisation of the labour market - as middle class white women have greater presence in the public sphere, they are more likely to push responsibility for domestic work onto other women. In its depiction of the treatment of women from the South by women in the North, the book asks some difficult questions about the common bond of womanhood. Packed with information on the numbers of migrant women working as domestics, the racism, immigration or employment legislation that constrains their lives, and testimonies from the workers themselves, this is the most comprehensive study of migrant domestic workers available.

Author : Maggie Black
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Abused children
ISBN : NWU:35556030235204

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Child Domestic Workers by Maggie Black Pdf

Author : Sophie Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000539691

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Protecting the Rights of Women Migrant Domestic Workers by Sophie Henderson Pdf

Migrant women across Asia disproportionately work in precarious, insecure, and informal employment sectors that are subject to few regulations, pay low wages, and expose women to harm, of which domestic work is among the most prevalent. This book uses the cases of the Philippines and Sri Lanka to develop a comprehensive, intersectional, rights-based approach to better protect women migrant domestic workers against exploitation. As accounts of exploitation, gender-based violence, torture, and death among migrant domestic workers increase, the recognition and defence of their human and labour rights is an urgent necessity. The Philippines and Sri Lanka are two of the leading labour-sending states of women domestic workers in Asia, and their economies have become increasingly dependent on the remittances they send back home. Drawing on extensive original research this book argues that these two sending states are guilty of structural violence by sustaining a network of institutions, policies and practices, which serve to systematically disadvantage and discriminate against women migrant domestic workers. The research covers the entire migration process, from pre-departure, through to overseas employment, followed by return and reintegration. This book’s innovative application of structural violence theory as a way to investigate the role of state institutions in labour-sending countries in the Global South will be of interest to researchers from across the fields of migration studies, gender studies, human rights law, and Asian Studies.

Author : International Labour Organization (ILO),Asha D'Souza
Publisher : International Labour Organisation
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9221220508

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Moving Towards Decent Work for Domestic Workers by International Labour Organization (ILO),Asha D'Souza Pdf

Author : International Labour Ogranization,International Labour Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Household employees
ISBN : OCLC:476083261

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Decent Work for Domestic Workers by International Labour Ogranization,International Labour Office Pdf

Internationalt overblik over husligt arbejdes status, de ansattes rettigheder og lovgivning på området.

Author : Katarzyna Suwada
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Families
ISBN : 9783030663032

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Parenting and Work in Poland by Katarzyna Suwada Pdf

The open access book provides a critical account of parenthood in Polish society. It uses a qualitative perspective to show how mothers and fathers engage with parenthood and also function in the labour market. Parenting in contemporary Poland is not only affected by individual preferences and choices, but significantly by the institutional context, in particular the family policy system, as well as socio-cultural norms of how men and women should fulfill parental roles. The author distinguishes between different kinds of work done in connection to parenthood and shows how the existing institutional system reinforces gender and other forms of social inequalities even in a post-communist state like Poland. The author demonstrates that Polish society has different expectations and institutional norms related to work and gender norms compared to those in long-standing democracies in Europe and elsewhere. The book also shows that the experiences of parenthood in Poland are different between men and women, between single and coupled parents, and based on economic and other resources. This book is of interest to social science students and researchers of family studies, parenting, sociology of work, and social structure in post-communist societies.

Author : Jennifer N. Fish
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781479877935

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Domestic Workers of the World Unite! by Jennifer N. Fish Pdf

"Look deep in your hearts": making a global domestic workers' movement -- "Dignity overdue": tracing a movement -- Getting "on the map": global policy as an activist stage -- "First to work; last to sleep": central policy debates -- "My mother was a kitchen girl": mobilizing strategies among domestic workers -- "Put yourself in her shoes": NGO, union, and feminist allies -- "A little bit of liberation": moving beyond rights